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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = PJM

Found in 257 Collections and/or Records:

44.13 Male, Widowed, 55-64 yrs, Alcoholism, Schizophrenia, July 1945

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/41
Scope and Contents "This man is alcoholic at times but has only once appeared in court for being drunk in charge of a car. He has a violent temper and is at times depressed. Has "persecution mania". Alternates between charm and savage antagonism. First wife died sometime in the 1930s. Second wife died of cancer. Since then he has had a series of housekeepers, one of whom is thought to have had a child by him. For the last 3-4 years he has lived alone and has got slovenly in his appearance. Seen by PSW - Spare...
Dates: Other: July 1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 44

44.33 Female, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, July 1945

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/41
Scope and Contents

"This girl has an IQ of 77. [Male informant] confirms that she is definitely dull. Present occupation - helping mother at home. Father, farm worker. Mother 40-45. 3 roomed cottage, clean. Well doing cottage, harmonious. [Female informant] says "just dull" but PC thinks they are all right. [Male informant] says this is a very good family, but "they will be a little dull"."

Dates: Other: July 1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 44

44.59 Female, Married, 35-44 yrs, Anxiety neurosis, November 1945

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/41
Scope and Contents

"This woman is in an anxiety state, fainting and with cardiac symptoms. She is a bedswerver, has carried on with other men during her husband's absence in the army, has wanted to leave him in the past. Has said she will never live with him again but has made great preparations for his home-coming. 3 roomed cottage, very clean, very houseproud."


Relatives in survey: sister 44.36, son 44.24

Dates: Other: November 1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 44

45.11 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/42
Scope and Contents

"Dull and backward but not so bad as her brother. Incomers. Live a long way from the school and are often absent. Father a shepherd, a dullish, silly man. Mother 40+ clean and sensible, house-proud. Teacher has never seen the house, children are beautifully clean."


Relatives in survey: siblings 45.11, 45.13

Dates: Other: September 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 45

45.14 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Maladjusted child, August 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/42
Scope and Contents "This child has some sort of nervous disturbance. He was sent to the Sick Children's Hospital in [area] for investigation, developed Scarlet Fever there and was paralysed to a certain extent afterwards. He is now home but backward. Teacher - he will not speak, now speaks to the other children but will not play with them, she thinks his behaviour is abnormal. He does not do what you tell him to do; can't turn up the place in a book. Can't read but has to spell every word. She can't test him...
Dates: Other: August 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 45

45.18 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/42
Scope and Contents

"This child is very backward, will not pass the control exam. House dirty, not overcrowded, not happy. [Female informant] says this child is educationally retarded but anxious to learn."


Relatives in survey: siblings 45.20, 45.58, mother 45.19

Dates: Other: September 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 45

45.25 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/42
Scope and Contents

"This girl had an IQ of 75 but is now working. [Female informant] - bonny but dull. Mother of Irish extraction. Father an estate worker, dullish but decent. Housing good, not overcrowded, harmonious."


Relatives in survey: siblings 45.26, aunt 45.4

Dates: Other: September 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 45

45.29 Male, Married, 45-54 yrs, Schizophrenia, October 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/42
Scope and Contents

"Definitely queer, off work when nothing obviously wrong with him. Once in hospital for investigation, behaved in a peculiar way, got out of bed and defaecated on the carpet. Dr thinks he must be mental. [Male informant] thinks this man is all right. Modern house, wife is clean and tidy, not overcrowded."

Dates: Other: October 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 45

45.32 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/42
Scope and Contents

"IQ of 72 at school. Now in the navy or merchant navy. Illegitimate. "Obviously daft". Father a labourer. Clean house, not overcrowded but [female informant] says it is a small house, overcrowded and dirty but harmonious. A lot of swearing and bad language however."


Relatives in survey: father 45.34, mother 45.33

Dates: Other: September 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 45

45.35 Male, Married, Over 65 yrs, Senile and Arterio-sclerotic psychoses, October 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/42
Scope and Contents

"This man had a perforated gastric ulcer but recovered. He has been neurotic every since, very fussy. Was a farm worker. Clean house, not overcrowded. Only the old people and the grandchild. Harmonious."

Dates: Other: October 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 45

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